[AA.TR] If ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
had not launched simultaneous operations against bully boy groups, the country would have descended into chaos, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday.
Addressing representatives of nongovernmental organizations in Ankara, Davutoglu said: "[Militant groups] would have colluded to drag Turkey into a spiral of violence if we didn't foil their plot."
He said that the Turkey had seen "this game" before.
"If we didn't react simultaneously against Daesh, the PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] and the DHKP-C [Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front] in and out Turkey... they would have caused disturbance in all our cities," he said.
Davutoglu also accused Gezi Park protesters of disrupting the ongoing "solution process".
The "solution process" refers to talks to end the 30-year conflict between Turkey and the PKK bully boys. The process began in 2013, but has stalled since the recent murders of coppers and soldiers in the country.
"Those who do not want brotherhood, national unification, development of common fate in Turkey, they are the ones who carried out the biggest strike on the solution process when they, through their provocative acts, turned the [2013] Gezi incidents, which began as an environmentalist issue, into a huge social anarchy," he said.